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 Eugene Agichtein
Assistant Professor
 Information Retrieval Laboratory (IRLab) 
Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Emory University
 
 CV    Publications   (with citations: Google Scholar and DBLP).
Contact information:
Web: http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~eugene/
E-mail: eugene at mathcs dot emory dot edu
 Telephone: (404) 727-7962  Fax: (404) 727-5611
Office: E500 (5th floor), Emerson Hall		 Mailing Addess:
Eugene Agichtein
Math & CS Department, Emory University
400 Dowman Drive, Suite W401
Atlanta, Georgia    30322,  USA

News
Research
I lead the Intelligent Information Access Lab. I am also affiliated with the Data Management Group, Center for Comprehensive Informatics, Linguistics, and the Web Science Initiative @ Georgia Institute of Technology.

We work on information retrieval and text and data mining, developing techniques for mining user behavior and interactions in web search and online social networks, large-scale content analysis and information extraction, and on applications of these techniques to medical informatics.

Graduate students and visitors:

  • Ablimit Aji (Ph.D. student, started 2008)
  • Qi Guo (Ph.D. student, started 2007), winner of Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges award
  • Julia Kiseleva (Visiting graduate student, 2009-)
  • Dmitry Lagun (Visiting graduate student, 2009-)
  • Qiaoling Liu (Ph.D. student, started 2009)
  • Yu Wang (Ph.D. student, started 2009)
  • Tianyong (Tony) Hao ( visiting/exchange student, Dec 2009-May 2010)

Alumni:
Teaching
  Fall 2009:   CS170 - Introduction to Computer Science
 
Previous
 Sept 2009: RuSSIR'09 mini-course on Modeling Searcher Behavior
CS 190 - CS 190 - The Web: Concepts and Technologies (new course, Spring 2009)
CS 171 - Introduction to Computer Science II: Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008
CS 571 - Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Text Mining: Fall 2007
CS 572 - Information Retrieval and Web Search: Fall 2006, Fall 2008
Current Professional Service
  Co-Chair, Third Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2010) at WSDM 2010 in New York City.
Area Chair ("Web IR and Social Media Search"), SIGIR Conf. on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2010)
Area Chair for Information Retrieval (IR/QA/IE), Conference on Human Language Technologies (NAACL/HLT 2010)
Senior PC member, 4th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2010)
 
  Program Committee member: ACL 2010, AAAI 2010, KDD 2010, WWW 2010, WSDM 2010
Selected Publications
  Social media modeling and search
Learning to Recognize Reliable Users and Content in Social Media with Coupled Mutual Reinforcement [WWW 2009]
Predicting Information Seeker Satisfaction in Community Question Answering [SIGIR 2008]
You've Got Answers: Towards Personalized Models for Predicting Success in Community Question Answering [ACL 2008]
Finding the Right Facts in the Crowd: Factoid Question Answering over Social Media [WWW 2008]
 Finding High Quality Content in Social Media [WSDM 2008]
 
  Web search, information retrieval, user interactions
 In the Mood to Click? Towards Inferring Searcher Receptiveness to Search Advertising [WI 2009]
The Influence of Caption Features on Clickthrough Patterns in Web Search  [SIGIR 2007]
 Improving Web Search Ranking by Incorporating User Behavior Information   [SIGIR 2006]
Learning User Interaction Models for Predicting Web Search Result Preferences [SIGIR 2006]
Learning to Find Answers to Questions on the Web [ACM TOIT]
 
  Scalable information extraction and text mining
 SIGKDD invited webcast: Towards Web-Scale Information Extraction (webcast recording here), March 2007
    based in part on our KDD 2006 Tutorial on Scalable Information Extraction and Integration
 Snowball: Extracting Relations from Large Plain-Text Collections [ACM DL 2000]
Querying Text Databases for Efficient Information Extraction  [ICDE 2003] best student paper award
Mining Reference Tables for Automatic Text Segmentation, [KDD 2004]
To Search or to Crawl: Towards a Query Optimizer for Text-Centric Tasks [SIGMOD 2006] best paper award
Biographical Sketch
Eugene Agichtein is an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Emory University, where he directs the Intelligent Information Access Laboratory. Previously, Eugene was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Text Mining, Search, and Navigation group at Microsoft Research, working on text and web mining and user behavior analysis for improving web search. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University in 2005, and a B.S. in Engineering from The Cooper Union in 1998. Eugene is a recipient of the “Best Student Paper” award at the ICDE 2003 conference, the “Best Paper Award” at the SIGMOD 2006 conference, 2007 "Beyond Search" Award from Microsoft Research, and 2009 HP Labs Open Innovation Award. Eugene's research interests are in information retrieval, with emphasis on user behavior modeling, collaboratively-generated content, and medical informatics.
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Last updated: December 2009